71 Events
216 Births
98 Deaths
- 2019 A bomb explodes at a wedding in Kabul killing 63 people and leaving 182 injured. ↗
- 2017 Barcelona attacks: A van is driven into pedestrians in La Rambla, killing 14 and injuring at least 100. ↗
- 2015 A bomb explodes near the Erawan Shrine in Bangkok, Thailand, killing at least 19 people and injuring 123 others. ↗
- 2009 An accident at the Sayano-Shushenskaya Dam in Khakassia, Russia, kills 75 and shuts down the hydroelectric power station, leading to widespread power failure in the local area. ↗
- 2008 American swimmer Michael Phelps becomes the first person to win eight gold medals at one Olympic Games. ↗
- 2005 The first forced evacuation of settlers, as part of Israeli disengagement from Gaza, starts. ↗
- 2005 Over 500 bombs are set off by terrorists at 300 locations in 63 out of the 64 districts of Bangladesh. ↗
- 2004 The National Assembly of Serbia unanimously adopts new state symbols for Serbia: Bože pravde becomes the new anthem and the coat of arms is adopted for the whole country. ↗
- 1999 The 7.6 Mw İzmit earthquake shakes northwestern Turkey with a maximum Mercalli intensity of IX (Violent), leaving 17,118–17,127 dead and 43,953–50,000 injured. ↗
- 1998 Lewinsky scandal: US President Bill Clinton admits in taped testimony that he had an "improper physical relationship" with White House intern Monica Lewinsky; later that same day he admits before the nation that he "misled people" about the relationship. ↗
- 1991 Strathfield massacre: In Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, taxi driver Wade Frankum shoots and kills seven people and injures six others before turning the gun on himself. ↗
- 1988 President of Pakistan Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq and U.S. Ambassador Arnold Raphel are killed in a plane crash. ↗
- 1985 The 1985–86 Hormel strike begins in Austin, Minnesota. ↗
- 1978 Double Eagle II becomes first balloon to cross the Atlantic Ocean when it lands in Miserey, France near Paris, 137 hours after leaving Presque Isle, Maine. ↗
- 1977 The Soviet icebreaker Arktika becomes the first surface ship to reach the North Pole. ↗
- 1976 A magnitude 7.9 earthquake hits off the coast of Mindanao, Philippines, triggering a destructive tsunami, killing between 5,000 and 8,000 people and leaving more than 90,000 homeless. ↗
- 1970 Soviet Union Venera program: Venera 7 launched. It will become the first spacecraft to successfully transmit data from the surface of another planet (Venus). ↗
- 1969 Category 5 Hurricane Camille hits the U.S. Gulf Coast, killing 256 and causing $1.42 billion in damage. ↗
- 1962 Peter Fechter is shot and bleeds to death while trying to cross the new Berlin Wall. ↗
- 1960 Aeroflot Flight 036 crashes in Soviet Ukraine, killing 34. ↗
- 1959 Quake Lake is formed by the magnitude 7.2 1959 Hebgen Lake earthquake near Hebgen Lake in Montana. ↗
- 1958 Pioneer 0, America's first attempt at lunar orbit, is launched using the first Thor-Able rocket and fails. Notable as one of the first attempted launches beyond Earth orbit by any country. ↗
- 1955 Hurricane Diane made landfall near Wilmington, North Carolina, and it went on to cause major floods and kill more than 184 people. ↗
- 1953 First meeting of Narcotics Anonymous takes place, in Southern California. ↗
- 1950 Korean War: Forty-two American prisoners of war were massacred by the Korean People's Army on a hill above Waegwan, South Korea. ↗
- 1949 The 6.7 Ms Karlıova earthquake shakes eastern Turkey with a maximum Mercalli intensity of X (Extreme), leaving 320–450 dead. ↗
- 1949 Matsukawa derailment: Unknown saboteurs cause a passenger train to derail and overturn in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan, killing three crew members and igniting a political firestorm between the Japanese Communist Party and the government of Occupied Japan that will eventually lead to the Japanese Red Purge. ↗
- 1947 The Radcliffe Line, the border between the Dominions of India and Pakistan, is revealed. ↗
- 1945 Sukarno and Mohammad Hatta proclaim the independence of Indonesia, igniting the Indonesian National Revolution against the Dutch Empire. ↗
- 1945 The novella Animal Farm by George Orwell is first published. ↗
- 1945 Evacuation of Manchukuo: At Talitzou by the Sino-Korean border, Puyi, then the Kangde Emperor of Manchukuo, formally renounces the imperial throne, dissolves the state, and cedes its territory to the Republic of China. ↗
- 1943 World War II: The U.S. Eighth Air Force suffers the loss of 60 bombers on the Schweinfurt–Regensburg mission. ↗
- 1943 World War II: The U.S. Seventh Army under General George S. Patton arrives in Messina, Italy, followed several hours later by the British 8th Army under Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery, thus completing the Allied conquest of Sicily. ↗
- 1943 World War II: First Québec Conference of Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and William Lyon Mackenzie King begins. ↗
- 1943 World War II: The Royal Air Force begins Operation Hydra, the first air raid of the Operation Crossbow strategic bombing campaign against Germany's V-weapon program. ↗
- 1942 World War II: U.S. Marines raid the Japanese-held Pacific island of Makin. ↗
- 1918 Bolshevik revolutionary leader Moisei Uritsky is assassinated. ↗
- 1916 World War I: Romania signs a secret treaty with the Entente Powers. According to the treaty, Romania agreed to join the war on the Allied side. ↗
- 1915 Jewish American Leo Frank is lynched in Marietta, Georgia, USA after his death sentence is commuted by Governor John Slaton. ↗
- 1915 A Category 4 hurricane hits Galveston, Texas with winds at 135 miles per hour (217 km/h). ↗
- 1914 World War I: Battle of Stallupönen: The German army of General Hermann von François defeats the Russian force commanded by Paul von Rennenkampf near modern-day Nesterov, Russia. ↗
- 1907 Pike Place Market, one of the oldest continuously operated public farmers' markets in the U.S. and a popular tourist attraction, opens in Seattle, Washington. ↗
- 1896 Bridget Driscoll became the first recorded case of a pedestrian killed in a collision with a motor car in the United Kingdom. ↗
- 1883 The first public performance of the Dominican Republic's national anthem, Himno Nacional. ↗
- 1876 Richard Wagner's Götterdämmerung, the last opera in his Ring cycle, premieres at the Bayreuth Festspielhaus. ↗
- 1866 The Grand Duchy of Baden announces its withdrawal from the German Confederation and signs a treaty of peace and alliance with Prussia. ↗
- 1864 American Civil War: Battle of Gainesville: Confederate forces defeat Union troops near Gainesville, Florida. ↗
- 1863 American Civil War: In Charleston, South Carolina, Union batteries and ships bombard Confederate-held Fort Sumter. ↗
- 1862 American Indian Wars: The Dakota War of 1862 begins in Minnesota as Dakota warriors attack white settlements along the Minnesota River. ↗
- 1862 American Civil War: Major General J. E. B. Stuart is assigned command of all the cavalry of the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia. ↗
- 1836 British parliament accepts registration of births, marriages and deaths. ↗
- 1827 Dutch King William I and Pope Leo XII sign concord. ↗
- 1808 The Finnish War: The Battle of Alavus is fought. ↗
- 1807 Robert Fulton's North River Steamboat leaves New York City for Albany, New York, on the Hudson River, inaugurating the first commercial steamboat service in the world. ↗
- 1798 The Vietnamese Catholics report a Marian apparition in Quảng Trị, an event which is called Our Lady of La Vang. ↗
- 1784 Classical composer Luigi Boccherini receives a pay rise of 12,000 reals from his employer, the Infante Luis, Count of Chinchón. ↗
- 1740 Pope Benedict XIV, previously known as Prospero Lambertini, succeeds Clement XII as the 247th Pope. ↗
- 1723 Ioan Giurgiu Patachi becomes Bishop of Făgăraș and is festively installed in his position at the St. Nicolas Cathedral in Făgăraș, after being formally confirmed earlier by Pope Clement XI. ↗
- 1717 Austro-Turkish War of 1716–18: The month-long Siege of Belgrade ends with Prince Eugene of Savoy's Austrian troops capturing the city from the Ottoman Empire. ↗
- 1668 The magnitude 8.0 North Anatolia earthquake causes 8,000 deaths in northern Anatolia, Ottoman Empire. ↗
- 1597 Islands Voyage: Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, and Sir Walter Raleigh set sail on an expedition to the Azores. ↗
- 1585 Eighty Years' War: Siege of Antwerp: Antwerp is captured by Spanish forces under Alexander Farnese, Duke of Parma, who orders Protestants to leave the city and as a result over half of the 100,000 inhabitants flee to the northern provinces. ↗
- 1585 A first group of colonists sent by Sir Walter Raleigh under the charge of Ralph Lane lands in the New World to create Roanoke Colony on Roanoke Island, off the coast of present-day North Carolina. ↗
- 1560 The Catholic Church is overthrown and Protestantism is established as the national religion in Scotland. ↗
- 1549 Battle of Sampford Courtenay: The Prayer Book Rebellion is quashed in England. ↗
- 1498 Cesare Borgia, son of Pope Alexander VI, becomes the first person in history to resign the cardinalate; later that same day, King Louis XII of France names him Duke of Valentinois. ↗
- 1488 Konrad Bitz, the Bishop of Turku, marks the date of his preface to Missale Aboense, the oldest known book of Finland. ↗
- 1424 Hundred Years' War: Battle of Verneuil: An English force under John, Duke of Bedford defeats a larger French army under Jean II, Duke of Alençon, John Stewart, and Earl Archibald of Douglas. ↗
- 1386 Karl Topia, the ruler of Princedom of Albania, forges an alliance with the Republic of Venice, committing to participate in all wars of the Republic and receiving coastal protection against the Ottomans in return. ↗
- 1186 Georgenberg Pact: Ottokar IV, Duke of Styria and Leopold V, Duke of Austria sign a heritage agreement in which Ottokar gives his duchy to Leopold and to his son Frederick under the stipulation that Austria and Styria would henceforth remain undivided. ↗
- 986 Byzantine–Bulgarian wars: Battle of the Gates of Trajan: The Bulgarians under the Comitopuli Samuel and Aron defeat the Byzantine forces at the Gate of Trajan, with Byzantine Emperor Basil II barely escaping. ↗
- 2003 Nastasja Schunk, German tennis player ↗
- 2003 The Kid Laroi, Australian rapper and songwriter ↗
- 2000 Lil Pump, American rapper and songwriter ↗
- 1998 Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Japanese baseball player ↗
- 1996 Jake Virtanen, Canadian ice hockey player ↗
- 1995 Gracie Gold, American figure skater ↗
- 1995 Dallin Watene-Zelezniak, New Zealand rugby league player ↗
- 1994 Phoebe Bridgers, American singer/songwriter ↗
- 1994 Jack Conklin, American football player ↗
- 1994 Taissa Farmiga, American actress ↗
- 1993 Ederson Moraes, Brazilian footballer ↗
- 1993 Sarah Sjöström, Swedish swimmer ↗
- 1993 Xie Zhenye, Chinese athlete ↗
- 1992 Saraya Bevis, English wrestler ↗
- 1992 Alex Elisala, New Zealand-Australian rugby player (died 2013) ↗
- 1992 Chanel Mata'utia, Australian rugby league player ↗
- 1992 Maru Teferi, Israeli marathon runner ↗
- 1991 Austin Butler, American actor ↗
- 1990 Rachel Hurd-Wood, English actress ↗
- 1989 Lil B, American rapper ↗
- 1989 Rachel Corsie, Scottish footballer ↗
- 1988 Brady Corbet, American actor and director ↗
- 1988 Jihadi John, Kuwaiti-British member of ISIS (died 2015) ↗
- 1988 Natalie Sandtorv, Norwegian singer-songwriter ↗
- 1988 Erika Toda, Japanese actress ↗
- 1986 Rudy Gay, American basketball player ↗
- 1986 Tyrus Thomas, American basketball player ↗
- 1985 Yū Aoi, Japanese actress and model ↗
- 1984 Dee Brown, American basketball player ↗
- 1984 Oksana Domnina, Russian ice dancer ↗
- 1984 Liam Heath, British sprint canoeist ↗
- 1984 Garrett Wolfe, American football player ↗
- 1983 Dustin Pedroia, American baseball player ↗
- 1982 Phil Jagielka, English footballer ↗
- 1982 Cheerleader Melissa, American wrestler and manager ↗
- 1982 Ling Ma – American actor and musician (died 2018) ↗
- 1980 Keith Dabengwa, Zimbabwean cricketer ↗
- 1980 Daniel Güiza, Spanish footballer ↗
- 1980 Jan Kromkamp, Dutch footballer ↗
- 1980 Lene Marlin, Norwegian singer-songwriter ↗
- 1979 Antwaan Randle El, American football player and journalist ↗
- 1979 Nicole Sunitsch, Austrian politician ↗
- 1977 Nathan Deakes, Australian race walker ↗
- 1977 William Gallas, French footballer ↗
- 1977 Thierry Henry, French footballer ↗
- 1977 Mike Lewis, Welsh guitarist ↗
- 1977 Tarja Turunen, Finnish singer-songwriter and producer ↗
- 1976 Eric Boulton, Canadian ice hockey player ↗
- 1976 Geertjan Lassche, Dutch journalist and director ↗
- 1976 Serhiy Zakarlyuka, Ukrainian footballer and manager (died 2014) ↗
- 1974 Giuliana Rancic, Italian-American journalist and television personality ↗
- 1974 Johannes Maria Staud, Austrian composer ↗
- 1972 Habibul Bashar, Bangladeshi cricketer ↗
- 1971 Uhm Jung-hwa, South Korean singer and actress ↗
- 1971 Jorge Posada, Puerto Rican-American baseball player ↗
- 1971 Shaun Rehn, Australian footballer and coach ↗
- 1970 Jim Courier, American tennis player and sportscaster ↗
- 1970 Andrus Kivirähk, Estonian author ↗
- 1970 Øyvind Leonhardsen, Norwegian footballer and coach ↗
- 1969 Christian Laettner, American basketball player and coach ↗
- 1969 Kelvin Mercer, American rapper, songwriter and producer ↗
- 1969 Donnie Wahlberg, American singer-songwriter, actor and producer ↗
- 1968 Andriy Kuzmenko, Ukrainian singer-songwriter (died 2015) ↗
- 1968 Ed McCaffrey, American football player and sportscaster ↗
- 1968 Helen McCrory, English actress (died 2021) ↗
- 1967 David Conrad, American actor ↗
- 1967 Michael Preetz, German footballer and manager ↗
- 1966 Jüri Luik, Estonian politician and diplomat, 18th Estonian Minister of Defense ↗
- 1966 Rodney Mullen, American skateboarder and stuntman ↗
- 1966 Don Sweeney, Canadian ice hockey player and manager ↗
- 1965 Steve Gorman, American drummer ↗
- 1965 Dottie Pepper, American golfer ↗
- 1964 Colin James, Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer ↗
- 1964 Maria McKee, American singer-songwriter ↗
- 1964 Dave Penney, English footballer and manager ↗
- 1963 Jon Gruden, American football player, coach, and sportscaster ↗
- 1963 Jackie Walorski, American politician (died 2022) ↗
- 1962 Gilby Clarke, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer ↗
- 1962 Dan Dakich, American basketball player, coach, and sportscaster ↗
- 1960 Stephan Eicher, Swiss singer-songwriter ↗
- 1960 Sean Penn, American actor, director, and political activist ↗
- 1959 Jonathan Franzen, American novelist and essayist ↗
- 1959 Jacek Kazimierski, Polish footballer ↗
- 1959 Eric Schlosser, American journalist and author ↗
- 1959 David Koresh, American cult leader (died 1993) ↗
- 1958 Belinda Carlisle, American singer-songwriter ↗
- 1958 Fred Goodwin, Scottish banker and accountant ↗
- 1958 Maurizio Sandro Sala, Brazilian race car driver ↗
- 1957 Ken Kwapis, American director and screenwriter ↗
- 1957 Laurence Overmire, American poet, author, and actor ↗
- 1957 Robin Cousins, British competitive figure skater ↗
- 1956 Gail Berman, American businessman, co-founded BermanBraun ↗
- 1956 Álvaro Pino, Spanish cyclist ↗
- 1955 Colin Moulding, English singer-songwriter and bassist ↗
- 1954 Eric Johnson, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer ↗
- 1954 Andrés Pastrana Arango, Colombian lawyer and politician, 38th President of Colombia ↗
- 1953 Mick Malthouse, Australian footballer and coach ↗
- 1953 Herta Müller – Romanian-German poet and author, Nobel Prize laureate ↗
- 1953 Korrie Layun Rampan, Indonesian author, poet, and critic (died 2015) ↗
- 1953 Kevin Rowland, English singer-songwriter and guitarist ↗
- 1952 Aleksandr Maksimenkov, Russian footballer and coach (died 2012) ↗
- 1952 Nelson Piquet, Brazilian race car driver and businessman ↗
- 1952 Mario Theissen, German engineer and businessman ↗
- 1952 Guillermo Vilas, Argentinian tennis player ↗
- 1951 Richard Hunt, American Muppet performer (died 1992) ↗
- 1951 Robert Joy, Canadian actor ↗
- 1950 Geraint Jarman, Welsh musician, poet and television producer (died 2025) ↗
- 1949 Norm Coleman, American lawyer and politician, 52nd Mayor of St. Paul ↗
- 1949 Sue Draheim, American fiddler and composer (died 2013) ↗
- 1949 Julian Fellowes, English actor, director, screenwriter, and politician ↗
- 1949 Sib Hashian, American rock drummer (died 2017) ↗
- 1948 Alexander Ivashkin, Russian-English cellist and conductor (died 2014) ↗
- 1947 Mohamed Abdelaziz, Sahrawi politician, President of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (died 2016) ↗
- 1947 Gary Talley, American guitarist, singer-songwriter, and author ↗
- 1946 Hugh Baiocchi, South African golfer ↗
- 1946 Martha Coolidge, American director, producer, and screenwriter ↗
- 1946 Patrick Manning, Trinidadian-Tobagonian politician, 4th Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago (died 2016) ↗
- 1945 Rachel Pollack, American author, poet, and educator (died 2023) ↗
- 1944 Larry Ellison, American businessman, co-founded the Oracle Corporation ↗
- 1944 Jean-Bernard Pommier, French pianist and conductor ↗
- 1943 Edward Cowie, English composer, painter, and author ↗
- 1943 Robert De Niro, American actor, entrepreneur, director, and producer ↗
- 1943 John Humphrys, Welsh journalist and author ↗
- 1943 Dave "Snaker" Ray, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2002) ↗
- 1942 Shane Porteous, Australian actor, animator, and screenwriter ↗
- 1941 Lothar Bisky, German businessman and politician (died 2013) ↗
- 1941 Jean Pierre Lefebvre, Canadian director and screenwriter ↗
- 1941 Boog Powell, American baseball player ↗
- 1940 Eduardo Mignogna, Argentinian director and screenwriter (died 2006) ↗
- 1940 Barry Sheerman, English academic and politician ↗
- 1939 Luther Allison, American blues guitarist and singer (died 1997) ↗
- 1938 Theodoros Pangalos, Greek lawyer and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Greece (died 2023) ↗
- 1936 Seamus Mallon, Irish educator and politician, Deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland (died 2020) ↗
- 1936 Margaret Heafield Hamilton, American computer scientist, systems engineer, and business owner ↗
- 1934 João Donato, Brazilian pianist and composer (died 2023) ↗
- 1934 Ron Henry, English footballer (died 2014) ↗
- 1933 Mark Dinning, American pop singer (died 1986) ↗
- 1932 V. S. Naipaul – Trinidadian-English novelist and essayist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2018) ↗
- 1932 Duke Pearson, American pianist and composer (died 1980) ↗
- 1932 Jean-Jacques Sempé, French cartoonist (died 2022) ↗
- 1931 Tony Wrigley, English historian, demographer, and academic (died 2022) ↗
- 1930 Harve Bennett, American screenwriter and producer (died 2015) ↗
- 1930 Ted Hughes, English poet and playwright (died 1998) ↗
- 1929 Francis Gary Powers, American captain and pilot (died 1977) ↗
- 1928 T. J. Anderson, American composer, conductor, and educator ↗
- 1928 Willem Duys, Dutch tennis player, sportscaster, and producer (died 2011) ↗
- 1927 Sam Butera, American saxophonist and bandleader (died 2009) ↗
- 1927 F. Ray Keyser Jr., American lawyer and politician, Governor of Vermont (died 2015) ↗
- 1926 Valerie Eliot, English businesswoman (died 2012) ↗
- 1926 Jiang Zemin, Chinese engineer and politician, former General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (paramount leader) and 5th President of China (died 2022) ↗
- 1924 Evan S. Connell, American novelist, poet, and short story writer (died 2013) ↗
- 1923 Carlos Cruz-Diez, Venezuelan artist (died 2019) ↗
- 1923 Larry Rivers, American painter and sculptor (died 2002) ↗
- 1922 Roy Tattersall, English cricketer (died 2011) ↗
- 1921 Geoffrey Elton, German-English historian and academic (died 1994) ↗
- 1920 Maureen O'Hara, Irish-American actress and singer (died 2015) ↗
- 1920 Lida Moser, American photographer and author (died 2014) ↗
- 1919 Georgia Gibbs, American singer (died 2006) ↗
- 1918 Evelyn Ankers, British-American actress (died 1985) ↗
- 1918 Ike Quebec, American saxophonist and pianist (died 1963) ↗
- 1918 Michael John Wise, English geographer and academic (died 2015) ↗
- 1916 Moses Majekodunmi, Nigerian physician and politician (died 2012) ↗
- 1914 Bill Downs, American journalist (died 1978) ↗
- 1914 Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr., American lawyer and politician (died 1988) ↗
- 1913 Mark Felt, American lawyer and agent, 2nd Deputy Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (died 2008) ↗
- 1913 Oscar Alfredo Gálvez, Argentinian race car driver (died 1989) ↗
- 1913 Rudy York, American baseball player and manager (died 1970) ↗
- 1911 Mikhail Botvinnik – Russian chess player and engineer (died 1995) ↗
- 1911 Martin Sandberger, German colonel and lawyer (died 2010) ↗
- 1909 Larry Clinton, American trumpet player and bandleader (died 1985) ↗
- 1909 Wilf Copping, English footballer (died 1980) ↗
- 1904 Mary Cain, American journalist and politician (died 1984) ↗
- 1904 Leopold Nowak, Austrian composer and musicologist (died 1991) ↗
- 1900 Vivienne de Watteville, British travel writer and adventurer (died 1957) ↗
- 1900 Pauline A. Young, American teacher, historian, aviator and activist (died 1991) ↗
- 1899 Janet Lewis, American poet and novelist (died 1998) ↗
- 1896 Leslie Groves, American general and engineer, head of the Manhattan Project (died 1970) ↗
- 1896 Tõnis Kint, Estonian lieutenant and politician, Prime Minister of Estonia in exile (died 1991) ↗
- 1896 Oliver Waterman Larkin, American historian and author (died 1970) ↗
- 1894 William Rootes, 1st Baron Rootes, English businessman, founded Rootes Group (died 1964) ↗
- 1893 John Brahm, German-American director and production manager (died 1982) ↗
- 1893 Mae West, American stage and film actress (died 1980) ↗
- 1890 Stefan Bastyr, Polish soldier and pilot (died 1920) ↗
- 1890 Harry Hopkins, American politician and diplomat, 8th United States Secretary of Commerce (died 1946) ↗
- 1889 Lalla Carlsen, Norwegian singer and actress (died 1967) ↗
- 1888 Monty Woolley, American actor, raconteur, and pundit (died 1963) ↗
- 1887 Charles I of Austria (died 1922) ↗
- 1887 Marcus Garvey, Jamaican journalist and activist, founded Black Star Line (died 1940) ↗
- 1880 Percy Sherwell, South African cricketer and tennis player (died 1948) ↗
- 1878 Reggie Duff, Australian cricketer (died 1911) ↗
- 1877 Ralph McKittrick, American golfer and tennis player (died 1923) ↗
- 1873 John A. Sampson, American gynecologist and academic (died 1946) ↗
- 1866 Mahbub Ali Khan, Asaf Jah VI, Indian 6th Nizam of Hyderabad (died 1911) ↗
- 1865 Julia Marlowe, English-American actress (died 1950) ↗
- 1863 Gene Stratton-Porter, American author and photographer (died 1924) ↗
- 1849 William Kidston, Scottish-Australian politician, 17th Premier of Queensland (died 1919) ↗
- 1845 Henry Cadwalader Chapman, American physician and naturalist (died 1909) ↗
- 1840 Wilfrid Scawen Blunt, English poet and activist (died 1922) ↗
- 1828 Jules Bernard Luys, French neurologist and physician (died 1897) ↗
- 1801 Fredrika Bremer – Swedish writer and feminist (died 1865) ↗
- 1786 Davy Crockett, American soldier and politician (died 1836) ↗
- 1786 Princess Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (died 1861) ↗
- 1768 Louis Desaix, French general (died 1800) ↗
- 1753 Josef Dobrovský, Bohemian philologist and historian (died 1828) ↗
- 1686 Nicola Porpora, Italian composer and educator (died 1768) ↗
- 1629 John III Sobieski, Polish–Lithuanian king (died 1696) ↗
- 1603 Lennart Torstensson, Swedish Field Marshal, Privy Councillour and Governor-General (died 1651) ↗
- 1586 Johann Valentin Andrea, German theologian (died 1654) ↗
- 1582 John Matthew Rispoli, Maltese philosopher (died 1639) ↗
- 1578 Francesco Albani, Italian painter (died 1660) ↗
- 1578 Johann, Prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen, first prince of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen (died 1638) ↗
- 1556 Alexander Briant, English martyr and saint (died 1581) ↗
- 1501 Philipp II, Count of Hanau-Münzenberg (died 1529) ↗
- 1473 Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York (died 1483) ↗
- 1465 Philibert I, Duke of Savoy (died 1482) ↗
- 1153 William IX, Count of Poitiers (died 1156) ↗
- 2025 Terence Stamp, English actor (born 1938) ↗
- 2024 Virginia Ogilvy, Countess of Airlie, British countess (born 1933) ↗
- 2024 Silvio Santos, Brazilian media mogul and television host (born 1930) ↗
- 2016 Arthur Hiller, Canadian actor, director, and producer (born 1923) ↗
- 2015 Yvonne Craig, American ballet dancer and actress (born 1937) ↗
- 2015 Gerhard Mayer-Vorfelder, German businessman (born 1933) ↗
- 2015 László Paskai, Hungarian cardinal (born 1927) ↗
- 2014 Børre Knudsen, Norwegian minister and activist (born 1937) ↗
- 2014 Wolfgang Leonhard, German historian and author (born 1921) ↗
- 2014 Sophie Masloff, American civil servant and politician, 56th Mayor of Pittsburgh (born 1917) ↗
- 2014 Miodrag Pavlović, Serbian poet and critic (born 1928) ↗
- 2014 Pierre Vassiliu, French singer-songwriter (born 1937) ↗
- 2013 Odilia Dank, American educator and politician (born 1938) ↗
- 2013 Jack Harshman, American baseball player (born 1927) ↗
- 2013 John Hollander, American poet and critic (born 1929) ↗
- 2013 David Landes, Jewish-American historian and economist (born 1924) ↗
- 2013 Frank Martínez, American painter (born 1924) ↗
- 2013 Gus Winckel, Dutch lieutenant and pilot (born 1912) ↗
- 2012 Aase Bjerkholt, Norwegian politician, Minister of Children, Equality and Social Inclusion (born 1915) ↗
- 2012 Victor Poor, American engineer, developed the Datapoint 2200 (born 1933) ↗
- 2012 Patrick Ricard, French businessman (born 1945) ↗
- 2012 John Lynch-Staunton, Canadian lawyer and politician (born 1930) ↗
- 2010 Francesco Cossiga, Italian lawyer and politician, 8th President of Italy (born 1928) ↗
- 2008 Franco Sensi, Italian businessman and politician (born 1926) ↗
- 2007 Bill Deedes, English journalist and politician (born 1913) ↗
- 2007 Eddie Griffin, American basketball player (born 1982) ↗
- 2006 Shamsur Rahman, Bangladeshi poet and journalist (born 1929) ↗
- 2005 John N. Bahcall, American astrophysicist and academic (born 1934) ↗
- 2004 Thea Astley, Australian author and educator (born 1925) ↗
- 2000 Jack Walker, English businessman (born 1929) ↗
- 1998 Władysław Komar, Polish shot putter and actor (born 1940) ↗
- 1998 Tadeusz Ślusarski, Polish pole vaulter (born 1950) ↗
- 1995 Howard E. Koch, American playwright and screenwriter (born 1902) ↗
- 1995 Ted Whitten, Australian footballer and coach (born 1933) ↗
- 1994 Luigi Chinetti, Italian-American race car driver and businessman (born 1901) ↗
- 1994 Jack Morrison, Australian rugby league player (born 1905) ↗
- 1994 Jack Sharkey, American boxer and referee (born 1902) ↗
- 1993 Feng Kang, Chinese mathematician and academic (born 1920) ↗
- 1990 Pearl Bailey, American actress and singer (born 1918) ↗
- 1988 Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, Pakistani general and politician, 6th President of Pakistan (born 1924) ↗
- 1988 Franklin Delano Roosevelt Jr., American lawyer and politician (born 1914) ↗
- 1988 Victoria Shaw, Australian actress (born 1935) ↗
- 1987 Gary Chester, Italian drummer and educator (born 1924) ↗
- 1987 Rudolf Hess, German soldier and politician, convicted Nuremberg war criminal (born 1894) ↗
- 1987 Shaike Ophir, Israeli actor and screenwriter (born 1929) ↗
- 1983 Ira Gershwin, American songwriter (born 1896) ↗
- 1979 John C. Allen, American roller coaster designer (born 1907) ↗
- 1979 Vivian Vance, American actress and singer (born 1909) ↗
- 1977 Delmer Daves, American screenwriter, director and producer (born 1904) ↗
- 1973 Conrad Aiken, American novelist, short story writer, critic, and poet (born 1889) ↗
- 1973 Jean Barraqué, French pianist and composer (born 1928) ↗
- 1973 Paul Williams, American singer and choreographer (born 1939) ↗
- 1971 Maedayama Eigorō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 39th Yokozuna (born 1914) ↗
- 1971 Wilhelm List, German field marshal (born 1880) ↗
- 1970 Rattana Pestonji, Thai director and producer (born 1908) ↗
- 1969 Otto Stern, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1888) ↗
- 1966 Ken Miles, English race car driver and engineer (born 1918) ↗
- 1958 Arthur Fox, English-American fencer (born 1878) ↗
- 1949 Gregorio Perfecto, Filipino journalist, jurist, and politician (born 1891) ↗
- 1945 Reidar Haaland, Norwegian police officer and soldier (born 1919) ↗
- 1940 Billy Fiske, American soldier and pilot (born 1911) ↗
- 1936 José María of Manila, Spanish-Filipino priest and martyr (born 1880) ↗
- 1935 Adam Gunn, American decathlete (born 1872) ↗
- 1935 Charlotte Perkins Gilman, American sociologist and author (born 1860) ↗
- 1925 Ioan Slavici, Romanian journalist and author (born 1848) ↗
- 1924 Tom Kendall, English-Australian cricketer and journalist (born 1851) ↗
- 1920 Ray Chapman, American baseball player (born 1891) ↗
- 1918 Moisei Uritsky, Russian activist and politician (born 1873) ↗
- 1909 Madan Lal Dhingra, Indian activist (born 1883) ↗
- 1908 Radoje Domanović, Serbian satirist and journalist (born 1873) ↗
- 1903 Hans Gude, Norwegian-German painter and academic (born 1825) ↗
- 1901 Edmond Audran, French organist and composer (born 1842) ↗
- 1897 William Jervois, English engineer and diplomat, 10th Governor of South Australia (born 1821) ↗
- 1875 Ling Ma – German linguist and anthropologist (born 1827) ↗
- 1870 Perucho Figueredo, Cuban poet and activist (born 1818) ↗
- 1861 Alcée Louis la Branche, American politician and diplomat, 1st United States Ambassador to Texas (born 1806) ↗
- 1850 José de San Martín, Argentinian general and politician, 1st President of Peru (born 1778) ↗
- 1838 Lorenzo Da Ponte, Italian playwright and poet (born 1749) ↗
- 1834 Husein Gradaščević, Ottoman general (born 1802) ↗
- 1814 John Johnson, English architect and surveyor (born 1732) ↗
- 1809 Matthew Boulton, English businessman and engineer, co-founded Boulton and Watt (born 1728) ↗
- 1786 Frederick the Great, Prussian king (born 1712) ↗
- 1785 Jonathan Trumbull, English-American merchant and politician, 16th Governor of Connecticut (born 1710) ↗
- 1768 Vasily Trediakovsky, Russian poet and playwright (born 1703) ↗
- 1723 Joseph Bingham, English scholar and academic (born 1668) ↗
- 1720 Anne Dacier, French scholar and translator (born 1654) ↗
- 1676 Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen, German author (born 1621) ↗
- 1673 Regnier de Graaf, Dutch physician and anatomist (born 1641) ↗
- 1547 Katharina von Zimmern, Swiss sovereign abbess (born 1478) ↗
- 1510 Edmund Dudley, English politician, Speaker of the House of Commons (born 1462) ↗
- 1510 Richard Empson, English statesman ↗
- 1424 John Stewart, Earl of Buchan (born c. 1381) ↗
- 1338 Nitta Yoshisada, Japanese samurai (born 1301) ↗
- 1324 Irene of Brunswick (born 1293) ↗
- 1304 Emperor Go-Fukakusa of Japan (born 1243) ↗
- 1153 Eustace IV, Count of Boulogne (born 1130) ↗
- 949 Li Shouzhen, Chinese general and governor ↗
- 754 Carloman, mayor of the palace of Austrasia ↗